"any port in a storm" offers some guidance to seasick Asia punters these days.
He said punters remained largely apathetic about horse deaths, continuing to bet in droves.
Sir Michael said punters would miss Eddery because "everything he rode got a ride".
However, the prices at which off-course punters are paid are determined by the on-course market.
Little wonder then that punters latch on to Dettori's horses - the so-called Frankie Factor.
What self-respecting finance director would shun an opportunity to issue extraordinarily cheap debt to eager punters?
The Daily Mirror says punters are outraged by the increase, calling game operator, Camelot, "Lotto Rotters".
Many EUR punters remain flat, looking for a stronger individual conviction before entering the fray again.
As Hong Kong's punters have cut their spending, dozens of high-priced retailers have gone under.
So far this freedom has helped the local hedge-fund industry, without hurting the punters.
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The new Olympic structures in east London could beat even that, drawing punters from far afield.
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Wealthy punters can place big bets on events involving ill-paid sportsmen in faraway places.
Just remember, all of you, that 97% of punters are married or in long-term relationships.
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The review said that competing pools would be too small to attract enough punters to be viable.
It could be costly for most conventional High Street bookmakers, paying out punters who have backed both men.
Regular punters are only admitted for the practice rounds, but the limited inclusivity only adds to its exclusivity.
At spread-betting firm City Index, the male-to-female ratio of punters is 10:1.
As long as the market went up, these neophyte punters saw stock investing as a road to easy riches.
The punters and kickers argue that even occasionally taking a block or tackling a returner poses an extraordinary risk.
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Perhaps their closeness to the market gives them an insight international punters lack?
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The desperation with which stock punters have posited TV as Apple's next opportunity has been especially pathetic to watch.
State-protected lotteries and horse-races generally offer terrible odds for punters, while their sponsoring governments have imposed hefty sin taxes.
Today, its bleak-looking parlours are frequented by an ageing, dwindling base of punters.
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He is a world expert on how to part punters from their cash.
When Wharf got a license to provide telecom services in Hong Kong last July, however, punters were already shying away.
These were the great companies of the so-called "new economy, " fueled by venture capitalist sugar daddies and excitable Nasdaq punters.
Dulling punters' enthusiasm for regional bourses is a cocktail of widening current-account deficits, rising interest rates and high inflation figures.
But punters must look beyond the handful of listed companies in the NICs that actually produce high-tech goods, mostly electronics.
An early favourite with the punters was Sir Rembrandt, which won the John Hughes Rehearsal Chase at Chepstow earlier this month.
The internet-based firm allows clients to back a team or offer odds to other punters on the outcome of a match.
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